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Article #42758Re: New mouse design... WHY?!
From: Norman Goodger
Date: Thu, 18 May 1989 23:11
Date: Thu, 18 May 1989 23:11
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In article <2600@nmtsun.nmt.edu> weevil@nmtsun.nmt.edu (Jeff Eliasen) writes: >Today's rhetoric question: >When is Apple going to ship the Macintosh standard with optical mice? I >figure maybe an increase in price of $50, which is small enough that it >could probably be ignored... >- Jeffrey Eliasen While perhaps being a rhetorical question, I for one would not want an optical mouse. They require those reflective pads. If you mouse at angles to the x/y pattern on the pad, the mouse movement is strange. I prefer a trackball myself, no worries about dirty mice, much more sensative and accurate than a mouse. The only place I've seen a mouse work better than a trackball is some games. Other than that trackballs IMHO are much better than mice and significantly better than optical mice...
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!apple!oliveb!tymix!3comvax!bridge2!ngg From: ngg@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM (Norman Goodger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: New mouse design... WHY?! Message-ID: <631@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM> Date: 18 May 89 23:11:45 GMT References: <7891@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <431a1e09.a590@mag.engin.umich.edu> <13402@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <21560@srcsip.UUCP> <2600@nmtsun.nmt.edu> Reply-To: ngg@bridge2.3Com.com (Norman Goodger) Organization: 3Com Corp., Mt. View, CA Lines: 16